Carbon paper pack for manifolding typewriters



J. C. DOYLE March 17, 1953 CARBON PAPER PACK FOR MANIFOLDING TYPEWRITERS Filed Feb. 16, 1951 2 SHEETSSHEET 1 I: 'U tf I I l 1N VEN TOR. J0$E PH CA RROLI. DOYLE A TTORNEY BY W.

J. C. DOYLE March 17, 1953 CARBON PAPER PACK FOR MANIFOLDING TYPEWRITERS Filed Feb. 16, 1951 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII v I I I I I I II I I I I I I I I II I INVENTOR. JOSEPH CARROLL DOYLE ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 17, 1953 CARBON PAPER PACK FOR MANIFOLDING TYPEWRITERS Joseph Carroll Doyle, Rochester, N. Y., 'assignor to Kee Lox Manufacturing Company, Rochester, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application February 16, 1951, Serial No. 211,353

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a carbon paper pack for use with a manifolding typewriter in which a series of sheets of carbon paper forming parts of different packs are each connected to a separate supporting bar or blade of a movable carbon paper carriage and interposed between continuous sheets of paper on which several typewritten records are to be made, the carbon paper carriage being withdrawn after each typing operation to remove the carbon sheets from between the record sheets and permit tearing off the typewritten records from the continuous record sheets, and it has for its purpose to afford a carbon paper pack which can be readily attached to the supporting bar of the carbon paper carriage and includes a multiplicity of folded sheets of carbon paper arranged so that the outermost sheet can be easily drawn from the pack and unfolded for use between two record sheets while the reserve folded carbon sheets are maintained in their superposed and folded relationship in the pack, and efiectively protected so that the operator's fingers do not come in contact with the exposed carbon surface and the carbon sheets are protected against contact with the record sheets during movement of the carbon paper carriage.

A further purpose of the invention is to provide a construction in which a multiplicity of folded carbon paper sheets are attached at one end to a backing sheet, while they are protected and attached to the supporting bar of the carbon paper carriage by means of a wrapper which extends over the exposed carbon surface of the outermost carbon sheet and around the side edges of the folded carbon sheets, thence over the outer face of the backing sheet to which the wrapper is attached, leaving the folded carbon sheets free to be individually unfolded and drawn from the pack, while one end of the wrapper extends beyond the folded ends of the carbon sheets and is folded back upon itself to afford a flap that is engaged with the supporting bar of the carbon paper carriage, or is otherwise detachably associated with the supporting bar.

A further purpose of the invention is to afford a structure which is economical and simple to produce and in which the carbon sheets can be readily manipulated for use by the operator, and with a minimum waste of carbon paper.

To these and other ends, the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts that will appear clearly from the following description when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, the novel features being 2 pointed out in the claim following the specification.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a carbon paper'pack constructed in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, and illustrating it in position on a supporting bar such as forms part of a carbon paper carriage of a manifolding typewriter;

Fig. 2 is a view in rear elevation of the carbon paper pack;

Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of the carbon pack, showing the outermost carbon sheet partially withdrawn from the pack as when it is to be used between record sheets, the lower part of the partially removed carbon sheet being broken away;

Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the outermost carbon sheet entirely withdrawn from the pack for use, its forward part being broken away and the next carbon sheet in position to be grasped and withdrawn;

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal central sectional view, partially broken away, on line 5-5 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction indicated;

, Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional view, partially broken away, taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1 and looking in the direction indicated, and

Fig. '7 is a plan view of the Wrapper before being folded around the carbon paper sheetsand attached to the backing sheet.

Referring more particularly to the drawings in which like reference numerals refer to the same parts throughout the several views, the structure shown, which indicates one way of carrying out the invention, comprises a series of carbon paper sheets I each folded outwardly upon itself with its carbon surface exposed. The several carbon paper sheets folded in this fashion have their rear ends alined and attached to a paper backing sheet 2, see Fig. 5, which latter has a portion 3 folded around the alined rear ends of the carbon paper sheets and secured thereto by a line of stitching 4 which attaches the carbon paper sheets to the backing sheet 2. By referring to Fig. 5, it will be noted that the forward end of each folded carbon sheet terminates a short distance from the line of stitching 4 so that the carbon sheets can each be readily grasped at its forward end and withdrawn from its position over the reserve supply of carbon sheets when it is to be placed in use.

In order to protect the exposed carbon-coated face of the outermost carbon sheet from contact with the fingers of the operator and to hold 3 4 the reserve supply of folded carbon sheets in bon pack so that the operator can grasp the proper relation to each other until each is withcentral portion of the forward edge of the outerdrawn from the pack for use, there is provided most carbon sheet and withdraw it from the a wrapper of paper or other suitable material wrapper in the manner illustrated in Fig. 3 that preferably surrounds the folded carbon 5 which shows the outermost carbon sheet parsheets and backing sheet, extending around their tially withdrawn. When the carbon sheet is enside edges and being adhesively or otherwise tirely withdrawn from the wrapper and is .in poattached to the backing sheet in any suitable sition for engagement between two record sheets, fashion, the wrapper being constructed to enable it is related to the backing sheet and wrapper its ready attachment to the supporting bar of as illustrated in Fig. 4, and there is another carthe carbon paper carriage. bon sheet immediately under the wrapper with This objective is attained by a wrapper formed the forward portion of its carbon face and its from a blank of paper, for instance such as free edge exposed, ready to be withdrawn when shown in Fig. 7, and including a front portion 5 .the first mentioned sheet has been torn away that overlies the outermost carbon sheet, see .15 from the backing sheet. Figs. 1 and 7, rear portions s and I that extend It will be understood that th carbon paper around the side edges of the folded carbon. sheets pack may be attached to the supporting bar in over the backing sheet 2, and an extension 8 that other ways than as described herein, and the esprojects from one end .of the central portion 5 sential feature of the invention resides in a and is folded to afford a flap 9 by which the wrapper surrounding the carbon sheets and atwrapper is attached to the supporting bar H) of tached to the backing sheet'with'.provisionififor the carbon paper carriage, while flap 9 protects detachably securing the wrapper :and :z'carbon the folded edges of the sheets of the carbon paper pack to the supporting bar. pack from contact with portions of the record While the invention hasbeen described-with sheets when the carbon paper carriage is 'withreference to the particular construction herein drawn rearwardly of the record sheets. shown, it is not restricted to the exact details The wrapper is preferably assembled by 'placdisclosed and this application isintended-to ing its front portion '5 in position overlying the cover such modifications or departures .asxmay exposed carbon surface of the outermost'folded come within the purposes. of the improvement carbon sheet, then folding the rear portions 6 and the scope of the followingsclaim. and 1 respectively around the edges'of the car- Iclaim: bon sheets and over the backing sheet 2, the A carbon pack for 'manifolding "typewriters rear portions 6 and 1 being preferably adhesively comprising a multiplicity of superposed indeattached along their forward edges to th backpendently folded and outwardly folded sheetsof ing sheet 2 and portion 1 being adhesively atcarbon paper aimed at their ends and a backing tached to portion 6 along their overlapping edges, sheet to which said carbon sheets are-stitched at as indicated by dotted lines in e following one end while the opposite end of each carbon 'WhiCh' the end extension 8 is folded along a line sheet is free and has its carbonsurfaceifacing that is spaced from the inner ends of the folded outwardly, a wrapper having acontinuous and carbon S ts suflciently 0 aCCOmmOdate the 40 unbroken front portion extending across the outsupp r ing r N3 f he carbon p p r carriage. wardly facing carbon'surfaceof the ca'rbonsheet When the extension is thus attached to the and a ortionsexten-ding around the side S pp r 19 d removably Secured thereto edges of the carbon sheets and across the outer by met l Clips l s Customary in the use Of Such surface of the backing sheetand secured- -to said Carbon p p p t flap 9 extends Over the outer surface of the backing sheet, the forward illilllliiiolih'i(i3 and? andthe backing Sheet 2 P edge of said front portion of the wrapperterI-niably to approximately the pqsition indicated in nating in spaced relation-behind the forward Fig. 2 and in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The Wrapp edge of the outermost carbon sheet andexpcs-ing is so dimensioned that when attached to the the latter to permit gl-ippmgand pulling out the backing Sheet 2,218 shown in sforward exposed carbon sheet withoutdisturbing the edge of the wrapper terminates a distance from Wrapper or the underlying carbonsheetsandan the forward edge of the outermost carbon sheet, extension on the from. portion of theuwrapper thus exposing a sufiicient portion of the free edge projecting beyond the folded ends of the carbon of the carbon sheet to enable the operator readily sheets and having a folded portion which is to take hold of the sheet and withdraw it from tachably engageable with. a supportingbar.

the pack, while [2 designates a cutout portion JOSEPH CARROLL DOYLE centrally of the forward edge of the wrapper to afford ample space for the operator to grasp'the REFERENCES CITED sheet and to indicate the proper point for en- The following references are of record 'in'the gaging the sheet whenwithdrawing the same. file of this patent It will be understood that while the wrapper surrounding the folded carbon sheets is adhe- UNITED STATESPATENTS sively attached to the backing sheet and fits Number Name Date tightly enough to prevent the carbon sheets re- 2333204 Fleischmann "F6025, 1941 'maining in the pack being accidentall dislodged, 55 2,343,796 Petit Mar -'7, 1-944 it fits with sufiicient looseness around the car- 37, 7 Liebrfritz Oct. 23, I945 

